On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 07:57, jkw wrote: > the only mailing list i am subscribed to at this address is > gentoo-user. i have never posted this address on the internet > anywhere. > > i *NEVER* received spam before signing up on gentoo-user, and now i > receive about *1 MB* of spam/viruses each day. therefore it's obvious > that gentoo-user is the source of the spam and viruses. > > now, guess what? go to google groups (dejanews, whatever) and > look at the group linux.gentoo.user. i believe that's where and how > the spam/virus programs harvest addresses. > > it is incredibly naive on google's part to do such a stupid thing as > not hide email addresses, like mail-archive does. how can we prevent > gentoo-user from being archived on google, or stop google from making > email addresses public information? > I couldn't agree more. It's plain to me too that the gentoo list archives are the source. It's all very well everyone talking about anti-spam solutions but this is the very first time I've been forced into having an interest in them.
Three questions: Why would these idiots target Gentoo? Why does Gentoo allow (or make it easy for) this to happen? Does this not reflect badly on Gentoo's image? Peter -- ====================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.49-r20 kernel-2.6.2-rc2-sparc i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ KDE: 3.1.5 Qt: 3.2.3 gcc(GCC): 3.2.3 ====================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
